Tidelands: III-Two (38)

Memento Mori.

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Caulden had wanted to see the silver city again – that shining place of futuristic promise, glimpsed only from afar on that first and so far only sighting – to see it up close, to walk its streets, to meet its people. But his second visit had been to somewhere else entirely.

[The Hall of Remembering,] the tall figure had informed him, that same bone-voice reverberating at the back of his skull and down the length of his spine.